Improved quilting-frame



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. nteutl ISAAC W. vALA'NcE, or TROY, NEW YQRK.

Leners Patent No. 88,594., dated April e, 1869.

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The Schedule referred `to inthese Letters lfatent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, IsAAc W. VALANCE, 4ot the city of Troy,'in the county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Quilting-Frames, or Couplings therefor, of which the following is a full and exact description, ref'- erence being had to the accompanying drawing, in Which p Figure l is a plan, and

Figure 2, an elevation of a quilting-frame which embodies my invention.

. Figure 3, on a larger scale, is an elevation of a section, at the line Y Yin figs. 1, 4, and 5, of one of my improved quilting-frame couplings applied to the fixed and rolling-up bars at one corner'of the frame.

Figure 4 is an elevation of a section of the same at the line X X in figs. 1, 3, and 5, and

Figure 5 is a plan view of the same Figure Gis an elevation of the upper part of one of the legs of the frame applied to one of the fixed bars.

Like parts are marked by the same letters in the different figures.

This invention consists in an improved coupling for connecting the fixedand rolling-up bars of a quiltingframe insuch manner that when the rolling-up bars are connected to the fixed bars by such couplings, with a quilt on the bars, the pulling back and turning of one of the rolling-up bars to roll up the quilt thereon, will release or loosen the couplings of such rolling-up bar upon the fixed bars, and cause those couplings to .slide along on the fixed bars as the rolling up of' the quiltprogresses, and so that the couplings may be refastened upon the fixed bars, by drawing back the rolling-up bar to strain the quilt tight, and then'releasing the rolling-up bar with a slight unrolling movement.

My improved quilting-frame coupling consists essentially of a stock, A, formed with a socket, or guides, b, so as to lslide on a fixed bar, C, of a quilting-frame without turning thereon; aratchet, D, journalled in or upon and carried by the stock A, and having a socket, e, to receive and hold withoutturniug upon the rolling-up bar F; and a pawl, or dog,G, pivoted to the stock A, andv having onecatch, h, fig. 3, for taking into the teeth ofthe ratchet D, and another one, i, for simultaneously biting into or engaging with the fixed bar C; all constructed and arranged so that when the rolling-up and fixed wooden bars of aquilting-frame shall be connected together by such couplings, with a quilt, J, fastened to and strained tight between the rolling-up bars l" F, substantially 'as shown by the drawings, the catches h and t, of the pawls G, will then engage with the teeth of the ratchets D, and with the fixed soft-wood bars C, as indicated in figs. 2 and 3, so as to thereby keep the stocks A from sliding on the fixed bars, and also prevent the rollingup bars F from being turned in the stocks A bythe tension of the quilt.

And so that by drawing back and turning backward one of the rolling-up bars, as indicated by the arrow It in figs. 1,2, and 3, to roll up the quilt on that bar, the ratchets D D, on that bar will then lift, orl disengage the catches i from the fixed bars O, somewhat as i'ndicated by dotted lines in fig. 3; and the two stocks, A A, which support that rolling-up bar, will then be slid along on the fixed bars, as the rolling up of the quilt progresses.

lAnd so that by then pulling back on such loosened rolling-up bar, as indicated by the arrow m, to strain the quilt tight, and then tiu'ning 'that bar a little forward, as indicated by the arrow 4n in fig. 3, the catches h, of the dogs Gr for that bar, will engage with the teeth l, of the ratchets D, and thereby make the stops i of the dogs engage with the fixed bars, so as to thereby refasten the stocks A A to the the tension of the quilt.

In iig. 2, o is a spring, to pull the catch, 'i down against the bar C. But I generally make the dog G so heavy on the side of .its catches as to thereby keep it in place, and make it engage 'with the ratchet and fixed bars properly.

By having the bars F extend through the sockets in the ratchets D, the frame may be adj usted to quilts of different widths.

I construct my improved coupling of' any proper shape and materials, and secure the parts vtogether by any suitable known means.

In g. 4, 1) 1), are the journals of the ratchet D, fitted to turn freely in the sides g g, ofthe Stock A; and

-r is a stud, on which the dog G is pivoted tothe stock.

In the drawing, the stock A is shown formed of platemetal, the lower part, s, being a plate bent down at both ends, and punched to receive and form a socket, or guides for the fixed bar, and the sides q q are punched to receive the journals p p, of the ratchet D, and have bottoms, t t, bent at right angles, and fastened by screws, u, to the part s.

shown extended and perforated, so as to receive and be screwed fast to a legV.

In figs. 1, 2, and 6, the legV has a bent metal cap, w, to fit and slide upon the fixed bar of the frame.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

a stock, A, to slide on the fixed bar of the frame, a ratchet, D, journalled in the stock, and having a socket for holding the rolling-up bar, and a dog, G, pivoted to the stock, and having catches, h and t', for engaging with the ratchet and with the fixed bar, all constructed and arranged so as to operate substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, this 11th day of January, 1869.

ISAAC W. VAIJANGE.

Witnesses:

LESLIE SMYTH, AUSTIN F. PARK.

fixed bars against In figs. 3 and 4, the lower part of the stock A isl A quilting-frame coupling, composed essentially of 

